This bowling alley at 3520-3526 North High Street between Dunedin and Oakland Park, has been on my “wish list for photographs” forever. So glad to finally come across a picture of it. This picture is from 1964. Clinton Lanes was open and at that location from approximately 1955-1978.

This photo includes nice images of other businesses on this strip as well: Rexall Drug, Dorothy Bloom Dance Studio, and Benjamin’s Jewelry Store owned by Floyd J Benjamin.

Prior to Clinton Bowling Lanes, the space was mostly occupied by an Albers grocery store.

Here‘s the story of its closure: the owners’ (Bud Davidson and his wife Marie) lease was not renewed, the owners were of retirement age…and so it goes.

Sadly, I’m sure there were a lot of unemployed pin-setters afterwards.

[Photo courtesy of the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s MLS real estate collection. The newspaper article about the Clinton Lanes’ closing is from the Columbus Dispatch and the citation can be found by clicking through my link.]